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J .B.BR00.Ks. GYGLE SADDLE.

No. 567,882. Patente'd'Sept. 15, 1896.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.lOllN BOULTBEE BROOKS, OF BIRMNGIIAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 567,882, dated September 15, 1896..

App1i0a,ti0n1eMarcll 1, 1898. Serial No. 464,224. (No model.) Patented in England May 4, 1892, No. 8,394, and July 28,

1892,1lo.13,733; in France December 13,1892,No. 226,361, and in Germany January 10,1S93,No. 74,268. i

To all whom, it may., concern:

Beit known that 1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Great Oharles Street, in the city of Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Saddles 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and for which invention Letters Patent have been granted in Great Britain, No. 8,894, dated May 4,1892, and No. 18,738, dated July 2.8, 1892; in France, No. 226,361, dated December 13, 1892, and in Germany, No. 74,268, dated January 10, 1893.

My invention has relation to the metallic under and supporting trainings, and also to the connection-clips and to the mounting of the seats of cycle-saddles.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in longitudinal vertical section, with some of the parts in elevation, a hammock cycle-saddle made and fitted according to myinvention. Fig. 2 represents an under side plan of the same with the connectionclip in section and upon dotted lines A B, Fig. 1. Fig. represents an elevation of a portion of the middle part of the under framing and pillar. Fig. 4is a transverse vertical section upon the dottedlines OD, Fig. 1, looking from left to right. Fig. 5 represents a modiiication of the clip g as applied to rodframings Fig. G is a part horizontal section of the same. Fig. 7 is a cross-section on the dotted line E F. Fig. 8 is a central longitudinal section of one of the cross-pins and of the nuts and washer-cotters separated therefrom.

rlhe'saddle-seat ct is mounted or slung upon a skeleton or trussed framing l?, composed of side members b', converging and coming together at their fore ends b2 and terminated at b3 by a bracket or eyed end, wherethrough a pin or pivot c passes, around which pin the outwardly-disposed loopedends d2 of a swinging spring or springs d pass, while the inner looped end d3 of the said swinging spring CZ is looped onto or takes over the hooked end e2 of the tension-screw e, which passes through a plain hole f2 of a fixed depending bracket f, connected to the front under side of the said saddleseat and with a collared nut e3, taking upon the end of the screw and into the hole f2 in the bracket for tensioning. The other ends of the solid latticed-Work sides Z9 are branched or open out and have their rcspective terminal ends b4 b4 riveted or connected to the back plate b5, iixedly connected to the back under side of the saddle-seat. Thus the saddle-seat is supported by an openwork frame and the front part slung from a "swinging spring connection, with the levering arms of the same crossing each other, so that as pressure is put upon the seat the said arms open out and the loop-coils are contracted.

The middle of the under framing Z9 is fitted with a split bracket-clip g, mounted on one side upon pins or pivots g2 and at the other side by a cross screw-pin h, having a top and bottom flanged nut h2 at one end and with the said pin taking through arcuate-shaped slots g3 of the split bracket g to admit of the plane of the seat of a saddle being changed or to admit of a tilt adjustment, so as to elevate either the back or front, as may be desired. Fitted upon the said pivots g2 are clipwvashers c', coming upon the outer sides of the framing and with their returned ends t2 embracing the upper and lower edges of the said framing, and by which means the said washers are prevented from rotating on the screwing home of the pivots and pin. The flanges of the said nut h2 are like those of i2 aroundthe pins g2, so that the said nut h2, besides taking upon the wormed end of the pin, embraces that side of the saddle-frame and is thereby prevented from rotating.

j is a tubular pillar carried by a machine and to which the saddle is adapted to be con! nected.

The pivots g2 and the pin 7L take through slots b 57 "of the side framing, so that by the loosening of the said pivots and pin longitudinal and lengthwise adjustment is admissible. Thus the pivots g2 are the centers upon which the clip g turns radially for giving tilt adjustment, which is limited by the vertical extent of the slots g3, and after the necessary adjustment, both horizontal and tilt, has been obtained then the saddle is securely clamped or affixed to the pillar j by the screwing up IOO of the pin 7L by its head, whereby the division or split gL is closed, the said clip forcibly drawn around the said pillar, and the frame sides drawn tightly against the clip, hence the rigid connection of the saddle to it.

g11 is a split or sectional clip composed of sectional parts glo, brought together by slotted cross -pins g2@ and h4, the former passing through round holes Q and the latter passing through long or arcuate-shaped holes Q30,

4(best seen in Fig. 5,) so as to admit of the angular adjustment of the saddle. The ends of the said pin g2() Mare slotted, wherein portions of inside-disposed Cotter-washers 7s, having concaved seatings, take, while taking within the outer ends of the said slots are also Cotter-washers i4, provided with inwardly-presented concaved seatings, and between the said seatings of the respective pairs of cotter-washers frame-rods h come, so that on the screwing up of the nuts h2o upon either side, after either horizontal or tilt adjustment, the sectional parts g10 of the clip are closed upon the tubular pillar j and the cotter-washers are slid inward Within the grooves of the pins, and at the same time the clip attachment of the saddle is rigidly clamped both to the said pillar and to the saddle-framing. Instead of the side-framing members b being open-worked they may be left or remain unpierced.

Having fully described my invention,what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In a cycle suspension-saddle, the combination with the saddle-supporting pillar and side trainings, of a split clip embracing said pillar, having at one end holes and at the other end vertical slots, with bolts passing respectively through said holes and slots and drawing the clip together and securing it to the side framin gs, substantially as described.

2. In a cycle suspension-saddle the combination with a pillar lengthwise and tiltwise adjustable, side trainings and a clip attaching the frame to the pillar; of a saddle and a slung or swinging loop-coiled spring having one end attached to said framing so as to hang below the same and the other end attached to the saddle, the ends of said spring being formed into pivot-eyes which embrace and turn loosely on their bearing, substantially as described.

3. In cycle-saddles, the combination with the seat of the under side framings attached at the rear end to the seat, a hook-ended bracket attached to the forward end of the seat, and aslung or swinging loop-coiled spring hooked or hung upon said bracket and attached at its ends to the side framing with the coils suspended below the framing, the ends of said spring being formed into pivoteyes which embrace and turn loosely on their bearing, substantially as described.

4. In a pillar-clip of a cycle-saddle, a split or divided body part g, pivotally connected to the side framings of the saddle and lengthwise adjustable at one end and both lengthwise and tiltwise adjustable at the other end, substantially as described.

5. In the framing of cycle-saddles, the combination with the framings b', Z2', of a split or divided ,bracket g, having vertical slots at one end and bolt-holes at the other end and pivotally and adjustably connected to the side framing by bolts g2, h, respectively, one of said bolts passing through horizontal slots in the side framing, whereby both horizontal, tilt and clamping adjustment are obtained, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of January, 1893.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.

Vitnesses:

HENRY SERRETT, ARTHUR T. SADLER. 

